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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
166; Josephus’s Antiquities, book 12, chap.

10, sec. 6. The Romans listened to the request

of the Jews, and granted them a decree,

couched in these words: —

“The decree of the senate concerning a league

of assistance and friendship with the nation of

the Jews. It shall not be lawful for any that are

subject to the Romans, to make war with the

nation of the Jews, nor to assist those that do

so, either by sending them corn, or ships, or

money; and if any attack be made upon the

Jews, the Romans shall assist them as far as

they are able; and again, if any attack be made

upon the Romans, the Jews shall assist them.

And if the Jews have a mind to add to, or to

take from, this league of assistance, that shall

be done with the common consent of the

Romans. And whatever addition shall thus be